More and more firms urge their procurement departments to optimize their processes and leverage IT in order to reduce costs, increase quality and sustainability of received products and services, and shorten delivery times. Already in the nineties of the previous century Henderson and Venkatraman (IBM Systems Journal 32(1):4–16, 1993) identified business/IT-alignment as a key to organizational ...

Methods A database of prevailing drug procurement prices was created from actual purchase orders submitted in 2013 by government procuring entities in the Philippines. The database includes information on the unit cost, volumes of procurement, source/supplier/manufacturer, brand, mode of procurement and location of the hospital for each formulation and strength of all drugs in the National Form...

The TAC supply chain management game presents a simulated market environment with automated trading agents each responsible for making decisions for the whole manufacturing process from procuring raw materials to shipping the completed orders to customers. Agents in this game have to deal with challenging and complicated problems with little or no direct information about the state of the game....

Electronic procurement has been widely embraced by governments seeking the administrative efficiencies and cost reductions experienced in the private sector. The enthusiastic response has rarely been tempered by critical evaluation of current models for implementation of e-procurement programs. This paper examines the case of Australian government e-procurement where there has been significant ...

We address the strategic issue of supplier selection in the public procurement sector. The aim of the paper is providing a decision making tool that mimics the intuitive behavior of the public tender committee in evaluating the (quantitative and qualitative) performance indices characterizing suppliers and yet results in a strict and transparent selection procedure, in accordance with governmen...

One of the key challenges of current day electronic procurement systems is to enable procurement decisions transcend beyond a single attribute such as cost. Consequently, multiattribute procurement have emerged as an important research direction. In this paper, we develop a multiattribute e-procurement system for procuring large volume of a single item. Our system is motivated by an industrial ...

The emergence of new electronic procurement applications and the rise of existing ones to their full potential have been revolutionising the disciplines of procurement and supplier relationship management. To date, however, very little research has been conducted regarding the impact of electronic procurement on supplier relationships. This paper lays the foundation for a more fine-tuned assess...

This article presents an economic model that enables the study of incentives for business-to-business (B2B) e-procurement systems investments which permit inventory coordination and improved operational control. We focus on the information technology (IT) adoption behavior of firms in the presence of transaction costs, agency costs and information uncertainty. But we conclude that it is appropr...

Mohammed Suleiman School of Business (SOB), Mzumbe University, P.O.BOX 6 Mzumbe, Tanzania *Email of corresponding Author: [email protected] Abstract E-procurement referred to the use of internet-based (integrated) information and communication technologies (ICTs) to carry out individual or all stages of the procurement process including searching, sourcing, negotiation, ordering, receipt,...

The Internet has changed the way business is conducted in many ways. For example, in the field of procurement, the possibility to directly interact with a trading partner has given rise to new mechanisms in the supply chain management. One such interactive dynamic procurement, which lets both buyer and seller software agents bid by potential buyer agents instead of static procurement by vendors...